I can’t believe it has been more than a week since my last post. Time flies when you are busy and on the road in places where there is little to no connectivity. I have a bunch of saved comments and will try to catch up over the next few days. A lot is happening in the atomic industry that I want to bring to your attention. Stay tuned!
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Lefteri Tsoukalas, the head of Purdue University’s School of Nuclear Engineering wrote a guest column for the Lafayette Journal and Courier about ABC’s October 13, 2005 “Prime Time” investigation of university research reactors. His well written column is well worth a visit for “the rest of the story.”
Climate Progress published a post on December 3, 2010 titled Sen. Lamar Alexander plans to nuke his own agenda that is sharply critical of Senator Alexander’s idea to build 100 new nuclear power plants. The post minimizes the potential benefits of high tech job creation, low cost clean energy, and productive new infrastructure that will…
Power Magazine has published an important, information rich article titled U. S. Spent Nuclear Fuel Policy: Road to Nowhere that provides the best available summary of the numerous dead-end paths that have been attempted in a supposed effort to provide a permanent storage location for used nuclear fuel. The article’s authors, James M. Hylko and…
One of the most precious resources we have is the talent and creativity of human minds. One of the reasons that I am not a fan of an “all of the above” approach to energy is that the time and effort invested in less fruitful ways of overcoming our current fossil fuel addiction cannot be…
There is a quick poll in operation at the Global Network of Environment & Technology (GNET) web site that is asking the following question: “Can nuclear-based energy be considered “clean” since the reactors don’t emit the pollution or greenhouse gases of coal-burning plants?” I have already cast my vote, but the early results indicate that…
Monsters and Critics has published a UPI wire story titled Nuclear energy rules knocked as outdated. You can probably find the same story elsewhere, but Monsters and Critics has a pretty nice comment feature so this might be a place where a real discussion about the article may occur. The discussion area has already been…